Hollywood Road

After hanging up Bill Rossis's phone call, Murphy sat on the sofa in the living room with an unusually serious face and his brows were tightly frowned. He got a piece of news that couldn't have been worse—the magician killed people again!

The Los Angeles police received a report at noon today. A cardboard box suspected of being an explosive was found in a park in Burbank and Malibu. The police immediately dispatched a large number of police officers to seal off the scene, and dispatched bomb disposal experts and bomb disposal robots However, it turned out that it was a false alarm. The box was full of colored magic balls, and the magic balls were covered with black letters - I am an agent of chaos!

There was no bomb, and the Los Angeles police breathed a sigh of relief, but the words on the magic ball made them nervous again.

Afterwards, the police mobilized people to conduct a carpet search of the park and its surrounding areas. As a result, a man's body was found in the pool in the northwest corner of the park. The dead man was shot through the head with a bullet. Magic balls that also say I am an agent of chaos on them!

Another person was killed by a magician, which is definitely not good news for Murphy.

Even, the media may set off a storm of public opinion far beyond the current one, and completely submerge Dark City in the wave of criticism.

Who the hell is that? Murphy was also very curious, He does things so crazy!

The police also did not get too many valuable clues this time. It is not that no one was affected by the movie in the past and did some crazy things, but he has never heard of people like this who have plans and do not leave too many traces. Pass.

Could it be said that the film Dark City will really create a realistic version of a crazy magician?

Although he was not a good person, the murderer committed crimes one after another. In Murphy's opinion, he could be described as crazy.

What's more troublesome is that it's okay for this guy to commit murder, but he and his movie were dragged into a huge vortex.

On the next day, more news reached Murphy through the channel of lawyer Robert.

The person who was killed was called Griffin Beckelman, who was also a Catholic believer. He once publicly criticized Murphy's Diego Ross in the form of his real name on his Twitter and Facebook. The plot about Catholicism in the movie, although the number of criticisms is not too many, but the only few times the words are quite fierce.

In addition, the bullet that killed Griffin Beckelman was ejected from a Glock pistol. The magic ball on his body and the handwriting on the ball are exactly the same as those thrown in front of the Chinese Theater in Hollywood. Basically, the two cases can be judged Most likely it was done by the same person.

In addition, the Los Angeles police still have not obtained too many clues.

The occurrence of this case also allowed the police and the outside world to further confirm that the murderer was a fan of Murphy!

But Murphy has too many fans. As a so-called native Los Angeles director, he has hundreds of thousands of die-hard supporters in the City of Angels.

Soon, the spokesperson of the Los Angeles Police released very unfavorable remarks against Murphy and Dark City when interviewed by media reporters.

Behind the shooting at the Chinese Theater in Hollywood and the murder in Burbank Park, you can see the influence of the movie Dark City. The murderer is obviously imitating the behavior of the villain magician in the movie...

The police's remarks undoubtedly pushed Dark City to the forefront. Some media with a bias towards Catholicism began to discuss how to limit the violence in Hollywood movies and how to reduce the negative impact on the audience.

Perhaps the Catholic side really saw a good opportunity to increase their influence in Hollywood, especially in Southern California. Some newspapers that supported Catholicism even directly targeted Murphy and Dark City.

If you ask me why the criminals chose to shoot the audience before the theater where Dark City was shown, I can only say that it has nothing to do with the movie itself.

This is the answer given by a police officer of the Los Angeles County Police Department when he answered the reporter's question 'Do you think the suspect in the shooting incident was influenced by the movie?' A similar question was given in Murphy Stanton's Dark City At the beginning of its release, I was asked by some reporters that some people worried that the image of the magician in the movie was too real and would cause young people to imitate it.”

At that time, Murphy Stanton's answer was 'young people have their own judgment'. This sentence became the core of some media's severe criticism of Murphy Stanton. The magnificent, huge and intensive propaganda campaign created by Dark City is considered by experts and the police to indirectly induce people to commit crimes.

The propaganda method of Dark City is completely brainwashed and viral. It constantly renders the confidence, evil and darkness of the villains in Murphy Stanton's movies. 'A loyal villain struggling in the quagmire of crime in New York City'... I believe most movie fans go to the movie to see how the villain turns New York upside down, and they expect a murderer who can kill the male protagonist, because Murphy-Stanton's films over the past decade or so have given them a love of neurosis, revenge and anarchy.

This also deeply exposes a problem with Murphy Stanton. His films never pay attention to the bright side of human nature or society. This is the scariest part of Murphy Stanton's films, which directly affects and distorts the value orientation of the audience.

In the promotion of City of Darkness, the film crew used a lot of viral marketing, such as posting the villain's arrest warrant online, to increase the attention of the film. This has deepened the dividing line between the film and reality on the other hand, This kind of publicity method caused panic among movie fans as early as 1999 when The Blair Witch was released. The footage is real.

What's even more frightening is that Murphy Stanton has never taken a responsible attitude for this, but is complacent about the negative impact of his film.

It's time for us to reflect. This kind of reflection should start with self-exclusion of Dark City, rejection of Murphy Stanton's movies, and rejection of extremely violent scenes in Hollywood movies!

Perhaps things are just as Murphy guessed. While the police tried their best to hunt down the criminals, the Archbishop Marquez Costello of the Diocese of South Central California saw a chance to fight back, and even restore Catholicism in Hollywood. The once-in-a-lifetime opportunity has frequently launched public criticism against Murphy's Dark City, and gradually expanded the scope of the criticism to the level of Hollywood.

On the other hand, Murphy has been going well in recent years, and many people and the media do not like him, and now they stand up and step on it. Anyway, it doesn't cost much.

In the hands of Murphy Stanton, the face-faced villains in Hollywood films in the past have turned into three-dimensional and complex terrorists like magicians. They believe in anarchism. Before they became thugs, they were the same Victims of a cruel, materialistic society, it's just that they've taken the exact opposite path.

This path is more in line with the choice of normal people. It is far easier to degenerate than to uphold justice. Take the shooter who imitated a magician as an example. He can put people to death for free speech on the Internet, even if he kills by mistake. No matter what, maybe he doesn't need money and power, but he plays with everyone with these two things, maybe he is not afraid of death, not afraid of failure, and only wants to destroy our world.

This kind of talent is the most terrifying. He takes crime as his ideal! And Murphy Stanton and his film noir have played an enlightening role in it!

Although many media have attributed the responsibility to Murphy and Dark City, some media analysis is more objective.

Violence has been inextricably linked to cinema since the first filmmakers discovered its commercial entertainment properties a century ago, and it has become a part of the story in the likes of Quentin Tarantino and Murphy Stanton. Famous directors have evolved into a thrilling art.

Looking at Murphy Stanton's directorial career for more than ten years, we can see a very obvious rule: no violence, no film. The violent elements in the film satisfy the restless hearts that are dissatisfied with reality. The audience's dark complex and desire for destruction are temporarily satisfied in the virtual world of the film.

At the same time, Murphy Stanton's film noir also made the audience familiar with crime, learned to commit crimes, and even became obsessed with crime. What we should admit is that films do have an inescapable role in the increasingly rampant social violence. I would like to ask those who have watched Dark City, who of you has not been fascinated by the magician's extreme madness and sophisticated planning? Who dares to say that after reading it, there is no one who wants to be in a certain place. The urge to detonate a bomb somewhere and walk out like a magician?

These criticisms and well-intentioned public opinions, like an appointment, jumped out one after another and appeared in front of Murphy and the public. It was difficult for people not to pay attention.

Combining the news from various channels, Murphy has confirmed that the last meeting was broken and bloody. It is said that Archbishop Marquez Costello, who was reprimanded by the Vatican, is going to use a sharp counterattack to return the face and reputation he lost before. .

Of course, Murphy will not sit still. CAA and Twentieth Century Fox specially prepared a TV interview for him. Although the negative impact of the shooting case cannot be reversed, it cannot be completely blamed on him and Dark City body.